The drunk driving teen who killed four people but was spared
jail because he was too rich to know any better, regularly had wild,
booze-fuelled parties in his OWN mansion, claims one of the troubled teenager's friends.

Ethan Couch, 16, was three times over the limit and high on Valium when he mounted a curb in Burleson, Texas earlier this year and plowed
into a broken down car, taking four lives and injuring more.

And MailOnline can reveal the horror crash happened just a
few hundred yards from a sprawling property where Couch boasted he was allowed
to live alone and unsupervised.

Left alone to live in luxury: This is the mansion in Burleson that Ethan Couch was allowed to live in unattended, and where he hosted wild parties

Spared: Ethan Couch was sentenced to 10-years probation rather than 20-years in jail after he killed 4 people in a DUI incident in June 2013

Affluent: This is the Burleson address where Ethan Couch apparently lived alone - gifted to him by his father, Frederick Couch, after he went through a difficult divorce with his wife Tonya

His father Frederick Couch is a wealthy businessman, who
owns a metal works, Cleburne Sheet Metal, with an estimated yearly turnover of
$15 million and around 30 staff.

After a difficult divorce from Ethan’s mother Tonya, he
apparently gave his son the huge single story property.

Couch was also allegedly given his own car when he was just 13 and was driving a
powerful truck owned by his dad’s company on the night of the accident.

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And now MailOnline can reveal the true extent of his wealthy existence, which ultimately led to the deaths of Youth pastor Brian Jennings,
mother and daughter Hollie and Shelby Boyles and 24-year-old Breanna Mitchell.

Teenager Anthony Lamanna was invited to a party at ‘Couch’s
house’ just three days before the accident. He had never met the teenager
before and was stunned by what he saw.

Father and mother before the divorce: Frederick Couch (left) who owns a metal works, Cleburne Sheet Metal, that has an estimated yearly turnover of $15 million and around 30 staff is seen in a picture from a company brochure while (right) is his ex-wife Tonya

A cross is all the remains of the crash site: Ethan Couch, 16, was driving under the influence when he killed 4 in a crash that occurred a short distance from his father's house on Burleson Retta Rd. in Burleson, Texas

He said: ‘Ethan lived in this big place with a long winding
drive way that went all the way round to his back yard, which had a large pool
in it.

‘When we arrived, the first thing he did was jump in the
pool, with his clothes on, rip his shirt off then start downing a big bottle of
vodka.

Shocked witness: Anthony Lamanna (pictured) was present for one of Ethan Couch's wild parties where he witnessed evidence of drug taking and saw Couch consume large amounts of alcohol

‘He was really knocking it back, he must have drunk about
six or seven shots in one go. That set the tone and from then on he was just
boasting and trying to impress us about how much he drank and how much he
partied.

‘He also boasted getting big amounts
of marijuana delivered to his house.

'That could have been made up.

‘There were only about five people there because it
was some kind of pre-party for what happened three nights later. He basically
wanted to impress people in the days before so they would come to the main
event.

‘He kept saying that he lived in the place alone and could
do whatever he wanted.

‘There was no furniture accept for a big couch, a wide
screen TV and his X Box. It definitely looked like the kind of place a teenager
would live in.

‘Ethan was just playing drinking games by himself and
boasting. No one else was even drinking. I hated it there and wanted to get out
as soon as we could.

‘Ethan was the kind of person who would pick on people to
try and make himself look big and feel better. I really didn’t like him. I
could tell he was bad news and we got out of there after about an hour.’

Killed: Hollie Boyles, 52, and her daughter, Shelby Boyles, 21, were helping out the driver of a broken down SUV when they were struck and killed by Couch's out-of-control pickup

Victims: Breanna Mitchell, and Brian Jennings, 41, were both killed in the horrific crash

On the night of the fatal crash – which also left passenger
Sergio Molina paralysed – Couch had stolen beer from a local Wal-Mart.

Anthony says he did something very similar the night he
visited the mansion. He explained ‘Earlier in the evening he had picked us up
in that same red pick-up that he crashed three nights later.

‘He had been boasting that he was a thief and on the way to
his house he stopped off at a shop in Burleson and him and a friend stole some
beers.

Before: Sergio had dreams of playing professional soccer before the accident

‘One went in the front and passed beers to the other one who
was standing by the fire escape. The alarm was going off and we just drove
away. He didn’t care’

Anthony added: ‘There are a lot of similarities to what
happened three nights later and it really makes you think. I feel really bad
for Sergio. I know him and he was a good kid, he wasn’t out partying all the
time like Ethan.

‘I know he wouldn’t have been happy getting in the truck
with Ethan if he was drunk.’

The fatal accident occurred around 11:45pm on June 15. Couch
and a group his friends got into a red Ford F350 pick-up and were speeding at
70 mph in a 40 mph zone when the truck left the road.

As it careered out of control, it clipped a broken down SUV,
throwing the owner and four good Samaritans, who were trying to help, 60 yards
in the air, killing them on impact.

Trial notes claim the cocky teenager said 'I'm Ethan
Couch, I'll get you out of this,' to one of his passengers at the scene.

It was revealed soon after that his blood-alcohol level was
0.24 - three times the adult limit, though minors aren't allowed any alcohol in
their system - and that he was also on the prescription drug Valium when he
started the chain reaction of crashes. The impact flung the four people 50 to
60 yards, authorities reported.

In court a top defense attorney hired by the Couch family
argued that the teen was not responsible for his actions. A psychologist called
by the defense, Dr Gary Miller, blamed his behavior on his parents, claiming
they gave him whatever he wanted including 'freedoms no young person should
have'.

The MailOnline contacted Ethan's parents Tonya and Frederick and the family attorney but they had not replied at the time of publication.

Forever changed: Sergio Molina, now 16, was in a coma following the June accident but now has been transferred home and has been awarded a $2 million settlement by a court in Texas

Heartbreaking: Sergio now must be cared for by
his mother Maria Lemus (left) and older brother Alex (right) around the
clock and they have already accrued $1million in medical bills

Expensive: Alex Lemus (left) had to quit his job to help care for his brother and the family has already accrued more than a million dollars in medical bills since the accident in June 2013

Dr Miller called Couch a product of 'affluenza,' where his
family felt their wealth bought privilege and there was no rational link
between behavior and consequences.

State District Judge Jean Boyd appeared to agree with the
defense and gave him ten years’ probation and counseling at a 'country
club'-style treatment center- with a pricetag of $450,000 in Newport
Beach, California, paid for by his father.

MailOnline also spoke to injured passenger Sergio Molina’s
best friend Michael Lane. Michael, 17 was in court to watch Couch escape prison
and he says the teen’s, spoilt, hard-partying reputation was well known.

He also recounted evidence he heard in court that claimed Couch
had actually been driving on the wrong side of the road before the fatal
collision, playing a terrifying game of chicken.

He said: ‘I was in court for the whole trial which was
really tough. I don’t know Ethan, but I had heard what he was like. I’d heard
he loved partying and drinking, that his parents were really rich and that he
had his own house.

‘In court they said that when Ethan started driving, he was
going really fast and all the others in the back were telling him to slow down,' claimed the teen.

'So to show off, he swerved into the wrong side of the road and started going
even faster.

Scene: 911 callers described cars everywhere and kids' lying in ditches' after the June 15 smash

Injured: Sergio Molina (left) and Soliman
Mohmand (right) were two of was seriously injured. They were both
riding in Couch's truck when the cash occurred

‘A truck was coming in the other direction and at the very
last minute he swerved back onto the right side, but he went too far and
mounted the curb. That’s when he hit the other car.

‘Apparently at the point of impact his foot was still hard
down on the accelerator.’

Sergio Molina’s family have launched a multi-million dollar
lawsuit against the Couch family and their company Cleburne Sheet Metal LLC.
They have referenced two previous drinking violations committed by Couch prior
to the crash in legal documents.

In one he was apparently caught drinking, while parked in a
vehicle with an underage girl. That incident happened just months before the
crash.

No jail: Judge Jean Boyd is facing calls to be removed from her position after she handed out a remarkably lenient sentence of 10 years probation to Ethan Couch who killed four people while on a drunken joyride

Instead of prison, Couch is set to spend time at the swanky Newport Academy male residential rehabilitation center in California with his parents footing the bill

The decision not to send Couch to jail has sent shock waves
around the nation, with many claiming he was only spared because of his
family’s wealth.

Judge Jean Boyd has faced intense criticism and there have
been calls for her to step down. Earlier today MailOnline reported that Judge
Boyle has not always been so lenient when it comes to youth offenders.

Last year Judge Boyd sentenced a 14-year old African American
boy to prison for ten years for killing one person with a powerful punch. The
teenage suspect’s name was never made public since he was prosecuted as a
juvenile.

Boyd is expected to retire next year, but a petition has
been launched at change.org demanding that Texas Governor Rick Perry remove her
from the bench immediately.

'This sentence is a slap in the face [of] the families of
those who were killed. He's sent to California to a spa-type center while the
families of the victims get to go to a cemetery,' wrote a supporter of the
petition, Stephen Pyka of Texas.

'This is another disgusting display of the wealthy trying to
change the rules when they break them. This judge should be removed for aiding
a murderer,' noted another supporter, Nina Eagle of Appomattox, Virgina.